"In the family" nghĩa là gì?

Đăng bởi lovebird21c - 13 Oct, 2014

Ziegfeld Model Risque - 1920s - by Alfred Cheney Johnston. Photo courtesy Ky.

'(All) in the family' nghĩa là giới hạn trong gia đình, các câu chuyện riêng tư hay gây xấu hổ (câu chuyện gia đình).

Ví dụ

Don't tell anyone else. Please keep it all in the family.

He only told his brother because he wanted it to remain in the family.

Xin lưu ý

Xin đừng nhầm với 'run in the family' nghĩa là (một đặc điểm nào đó) có ở nhiều (hay tất cả) thành viên trong một gia đình.

My grandparents lived well into their nineties, and it runs in the family.

My brothers and I have red hair. It runs in the family.

Intelligence seems to run in that family.

We're all ambitious - it seems to run in the family.

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